NYSCI’s New Mars Rover

Meet Camille, NYSCI’s new Mars Rover. Named after one of her creators, Camille was built by the Beatty sisters–Camille and Genevieve–along with their father, Robert at the headquarters of Beatty Robotics a.k.a the workshop in the garage of their home in Ashville, NC.

Video won’t load? Watch it here. We met the Beattys while researching upgrades to the Mars Rover exhibit in The Search for Life Beyond Earth. Over the past several months, they worked with our Exhibits team to build, test and install the Rover as a permanent feature at NYSCI. Here’s a description courtesy of Beatty Robotics’ project blog:

What’s next for the Beattys? They are already at work on a second Mars Rover for us–this one dubbed Genevieve, of course. And they just competed work on a replica of a Soviet-era Lunokhod moon rover for a museum in Prague. NYSCI’s New Rover on GMA Live

exhibits

More than 1,300 gingerbread houses will be on display at NYSCI from November 10, 2018 – January 21, 2019. The record-holder for the Guinness World Records largest gingerbread village, GingerBread Lane is made entirely of gingerbread, royal icing and candy.